Word: burnin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...minor boost from pay-for-say. Brooks' album Sevens is a hit--as it would undoubtedly have been without pay-for-say. But Bogguss's Nobody Love, Nobody Gets Hurt, after debuting on the Billboard album chart at No. 42, has since slipped to No. 61, while Wariner's Burnin' the Roadhouse Down opened at No. 6 and fell to No. 21 last week. Pay-for-play is no magic wand. It can make a good record sell better but doesn't do much for an average...
...loyally sat through Viva Las Vegas or Roustabout on the late show, you may not use the name and image of the King without the company's permission. If you do not desist, its minions will visit upon you what might be termed, in the vernacular, a hunka hunka burnin' litigation. And you will lose, because this company is bigger and richer than you are and has been down this road before...
...what happened to those lazy, listless baby busters who supposedly typified the new generation? Beavis and Butt-head were their icons; Beck's Loser was their song ("Savin' all your food stamps and burnin' down the trailer park"); Richard Linklater's Slacker, with its Austin, Texas, deadbeats, was their movie. This was the MTV generation: Net surfing, nihilistic nipple piercers whining about McJobs; latchkey legacies, fearful of commitment. Passive and powerless, they were content, it seemed, to party on in a Wayne's Netherworld, one with more antiheroes--Kurt Cobain, Dennis Rodman, the Menendez brothers--than role models. The label...